[00:03.722]Hello darkness my old friend.[00:08.242]I've come to talk with U again.[00:12.682]Because a vision softly creeping.[00:17.463]Left its seeds while I was sleeping.[00:21.904]And the vision that was planted in my brain.[00:28.565]Still remains.[00:31.882]Within the sound of silence[00:37.760]In restless dreams I walk alone.[00:42.540]Narrow streets of cobble stone.[00:47.138]'Neath the halo of a street lamp.[00:51.500]I turned my collar to the cold & damp.[00:56.176]When my eyes were stabbled by the flash of a neon light.[01:02.994]That split the night.[01:06.260]And touched the sound of silence.[01:12.033]And in the naked night I saw.[01:16.395]Ten thousand people maybe more.[01:21.254]People talking without speaking.[01:25.564]People hearing without listening.[01:30.031]People writing songs that voices never share.[01:37.894]And no one dare.[01:41.133]Disturb the sound of silence[01:46.775]"Fool" said I "U do not know.[01:51.268]"Silence like a cancer grows.[01:55.526]Hear my words that I might teach U.[01:59.967]"Take my arms that I might reach U.[02:04.304]But my words like silent rain-drops fell[02:14.073]And echoed in the wells of silence[02:21.205]And the people bow & prayed.[02:25.463]To the neon God they made.[02:29.590]And the sign flash out its warning.[02:34.841]In the words that it was forming[02:38.472]And the sign said "The words of the prophers.[02:41.946]Are written the subway walls & tenement halls".[02:49.286]And whispered in the sounds of silence.